James 4:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:11

And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,

Job 35:12

There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Psalm 18:41

They cried for help, but there was none to save, they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:13

He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord, Behold, I am bringing evil upon them which they cannot escape; though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

“Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

Jeremiah 14:12

Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.

Zechariah 7:13

“As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

Luke 11:10

For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Luke 15:13

Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!’

James 4:1

What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

1 John 3:22

and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.